Table of Contents :

The Final Phase of State Collapse: the Trap of Playing Chess 9
Abdirachid M. Ismail

Keeping the Peace in Somalia: Are “African Solutions to African Problems” Enough? 27
Bewuketu Dires Gardachew

Nile Hydro politics: Riparian States’ position on Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project 49
Yayew Genet Chekol

Decolonising Development: Academics, Practitioners and Collaboration 65
Eric Herring, Latif Ismail, Yasmin Maydhane and Sandra McNeill

Linking Blackness to Criminality: A Critical Appraisal of Literature on ‘Crimmigration’ Tropes of Canadian Youth of Somali Descent 101
Ernest Nene Khalema

‘The Old Men Who Hold Us Back’: Clan Elders, Elite Bargaining and Exclusionary Politics125
Ladan Affi